What would you do if there was nothing stopping you?

When people think of a “normal” life, many go straight to the 9 to 5 job and having a family. People don’t think that following your dreams is normal and the people that do it are viewed as unconventional and risky. Sure, it may be a risk to give up the perfect 9 to 5 job and leave your family behind, but why not go after the things you love now instead of sitting around fifty years from now wishing you had done things differently.

Whenever my best friend and I would think about our lives, we always knew that travelling and exploring was one of the main things that we wanted to do. But, whenever we told people about these dreams, they would look at us like we were insane. They would start to question us about how our family would feel, about how our nonexistent boyfriends would feel, and what we would even be able to do for work. Hearing this from people didn’t deter us from travelling, in fact it made our resolve stronger. Everyone always ask’s us what we’re going to do when we get back to “real life” but what they don’t understand is that this is real life for us. Real life for us isn’t having a house, or a baby, or a husband, or even a steady job. Reality for us is stepping foot into as many different countries as possible, climbing as many mountains as we can, pulling as many all nighters as our livers can handle and learning about as many different cultures as possible. These people that continuously question our way of life are going to look pretty silly when they’re asked what they wish they would have done differently in their lives.

We’ve compiled a list of things that we want to be able to accomplish. Some of these things may seem a little far fetched, but hey, it’ll be that much better when they can get crossed off the list.

Get scuba certified in Koh Tao

Go cage diving with sharks

Experience Holi

Experience Songkran in Thailand

Celebrate the Chinese New Year in Asia

Go to the Winter Olympics in 2018

Teach in a different country

Hike a volcano for sunrise

Hike the Triple Crown in Waterton in one summer

Hike the West Coast Trail

Fly somewhere for a concert

Hike the Inca Trail

Go to the Gili Island’s

Find Nessy in Scotland

Scubadive to the ruins in Alexandria, Egypt

Live in Europe

Travel the Trans Siberian Railway

Go to the Tomatina Festival

Ride a camel in the Sahara Desert

Hot air balloon over the temples in Burma at sunrise

Learn to surf

Go to Carnival in Brazil

Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans

See a Stanley Cup playoff game

Roadtrip across Canada

Visit a monastery in Tibet

Get tattoo’d by a monk

Learn a different language

Boat Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Attend a music festival in Europe

See the Spice Girls live

Play with penguins in South Africa/Antartica

Sandboard

Go to a Full Moon Party

Stay in a tree house

Go to the Great Wall of China

Visit the Taj Mahal

Camp in caves in Vietnam

Go to every large roadside attraction in Canada

Hike the Grand Canyon on New Years

Meet Erik Karlsson

Go on a safari in the African Desert

Go see the trees in Madagascar

Go to the pyramids in Egypt

Sky dive over the blue hole in Belize

Start a foundation

Save the manatees in South America

Break into Buckingham Palace

Dip into every ocean

Scuba dive in the black sea

Read a book in the dead sea

Go to Harry Potter Warner Bros studio

Step foot on every continent

Go to the Colosseum in Rome

Learn Yoga from a Guru

Climb a world famous mountain

Run a half marathon

Go to Oktoberfest

Watch the ball drop in New York City on New Years

Go to a hollywood awards show

Drive across North America in a van

Ride an ostrich

Live in Australia

Ride the London Eye

Go to Las Vegas

Go to Northern Canada

Experience Carnaval de Quebec

Visit Christ the Redeemer in Brazil

Throw darts at balloons full of paint

Make a London guard laugh

Throw a dart at a map and go wherever it lands

Visit the Blue Lagoon in Iceland

Go to a taping of a talk show

Be an extra in a movie

Tell a joke to Will Ferrell

Feel Zac Efron’s abs

Save sea turtles in the Galapagos Islands

Help clean up the oceans and beaches around the world

Save street dogs in Thailand

Experience Amsterdam 😉

Go to the pink lake in Australia

Eat pizza in Italy

Visit doll island in Mexico

Hang out with Llamas in Peru

Go to Iguassu Falls

Go to a popular soccer match

Go to a NFL game

Go ghost hunting

Visit Petra

Snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef

Learn to play an instrument

Have tea with the Queen

Go to Athens to meet Zeus and Hercules

Go hang gliding

Bike to the eiffel tower with a baguette and bottle of wine

Stay in a yurt in Mongolia

Stay in a house boat in a national park

White water raft in the Nile river

Hike up a mountain on every continent

See a sunset/sunrise on every continent

Go to the Amazon Rainforest

Climb a frozen waterfall

See the Redwood Forest

Drive the Oregon Coast highway

See a polar bear in it’s natural habitat

Visit the Buddha Park in Vientiane

Float down a river on a bamboo raft

Wander the streets of Prague

Hike the Na’Pali coast on Kauai

Ring in the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge

See the Easter Island heads

Trekking in Nepal

See pandas in China

Find Dracula in Transylvania

Drink vodka in Russia

Hike Trolltunga

Eat brussel sprouts in Brussels

Watch the running of the bulls

Go to the blue town in Morocco

Peggy’s Cove

Eat Texas barbecue in Texas

Eat a deep dish pizza in Chicago

Eat a philly cheesesteak in Philadelphia

Eat kentucky fried chicken in Kentucky

Eat potatoes in Idaho

Salt flats in Bolivia

Eat Chili in Chile

Eat a sandwich in the Sandwich Islands

Eat pizza at the Leaning Tower of Piza

See the White House

Dance while wearing clogs in Holland

Burj Khalifa

Visit Mount Rushmore

Make a wish in the Trevi Fountain

Sing London Bridge is falling down while walking across the London Bridge

Pretend the grounds lava in Pompeii

Play in the Louvre

Hang out on the edge of Victoria Falls

Skate on the Rideau Canal

See the Northern Lights in a different country

Take a boat down the Venice canal

Yodel at the top of a mountain in Switzerland

Fight with the terracotta soldiers in China

Play ice hockey with Vladimir Putin

Find aliens at area 51/53

Spend the night at the catacombs in Paris

Salt mines in Poland

Auschwitz

Anne Frank’s house

Be on the Amazing Race Canada

Successfully pretend to be a wax figure in a museum

Crash a wedding

Day of the dead in Mexico

Do stand up

Wwoofing

Steer a ship

This is the list so far. What are some of the things that you would want to do before you die? If anyone has anymore ideas, or even wants to share what’s on their list please feel free to do so!

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2 thoughts on “What would you do if there was nothing stopping you?”

Cool list, you guys are adventurous! Accomplishing even a dozen of these things would be very exciting. How about visiting the equator? Or snorkeling the great barrier reef? You could do that and learn to surf at the same time in Australia maybe. Also Macchu pichu in Peru is an amazing world landmark defiantly worth a visit, if you guys haven’t already. Hope your Journeys are fun and awesome!